Even audiences familiar with Yasmina Reza’s comedy “God of Carnage,” and the way it reduces its four adult characters to squabbling children over the course of roughly 90 minutes, might raise an eyebrow at a production of the play that will open in Boston next month.

When this “God of Carnage” is performed at the Bulger Performing Arts Center by the Boston Teen Acting Troupe, it will star four teenagers, whose only real-life experience with parental discipline comes from being on the receiving end of it.

“We’re doing shows people wouldn’t expect to see teens in,” Jack Serio, the acting troupe’s 16-year-old artistic director, said. “When I told people I was doing this, people would roll their eyes — ‘You’re doing that?’ But the hilarity in this show, we don’t want it to come from, it’s funny seeing your son up there, acting like an adult. The funny of the show is, the adults can see themselves in it.”

“God of Carnage,” which chronicles a raucous, violent and vomit-filled evening in the life of two pairs of parents trying to negotiate a truce between their misbehaving children, won the Tony Award for best play in 2009 for a Broadway production that starred James Gandolfini, Jeff Daniels, Hope Davis and Marcia Gay Harden, who also won the Tony for lead actress in a play.

A film adaptation, “Carnage,” directed by Roman Polanski and starring Jodie Foster, John C. Reilly, Christoph Waltz and Kate Winslet, was released last year.

Brendan Caulfield, a 16-year-old high school junior who will perform the role of Alan, the cellphone abusing father, in “God of Carnage,” said he did not know the play or the movie when he went in for “an impromptu audition” in March.

“I had never seen ‘God of Carnage,’ I had never heard about it,” Mr. Caulfield said. “Actually, I went to the Wikipedia page to read up on it.”

But since he has become familiar with the text and spent time working with his co-stars — Minh-Y Tran, 18; Kyle Jackson, 18; and Abby Ryan, 17 — Mr. Caulfield said he has gained a new appreciation for the play, which the troupe will perform from May 23 through 26.

“I thought it was going to be difficult, because you’re playing these characters who are much older than high school students,” he said. “They’ve gone through so much more because they’re married with kids and none of us have ever had those experiences. It’s a lot of observation, I guess, of other people who are like the characters.”

Mr. Caulfield added: “It’s probably the most difficult show I’ve ever been in, because you’re onstage the entire time. There’s only four people, so you can guess you’re going to get a lot of the lines. You have to be in the zone, 100 percent of the time. That’s the hardest part.”

Mr. Caulfield said his parents were supportive of his work in “God of Carnage,” and occasionally supply him with inspiration for his performance.

“Whenever the rare quarrel comes up in my house, I always keep one ear open,” he said.